Following the recent heads-up from lazyhound about CERN, I have Wednesday pencilled in for the end of the world, and am putting together a medly of tunes suitable for kissing my atholl goodbye, should the need arise (The Bang-shee, The Hair Fell Off My Coconut, that kind of thing.)
Any plans?
Sorry not a set - But dont play the Last Tune P-K lol...
jim,,,
The Templehouse
Punch in the Dark
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
A Ghost of His Former Self
Splendid Isolation
The Tempest
The Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit
The Kinnegad Slashers
Charley the prayermaster
The Sod of Turf
The Goats' Horns
The Humours of Passage
Planxty Higgs. That's for the party afterwards, which should be a memorable p***-up if the thing succeeds. And for that matter, if it doesn't - though the right tune then might be Planxty No-win.
I'm rather convinced that the LHC will not spell the end for us (http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625/), but for those of you that are skeptical, you can watch the end coming live, so you might have a few seconds warning (http://webcast.cern.ch/)
So for me, "It's the End of the World as We Know it, and I Feel Fine"
.. if you didn't mind including a non-trad tune, you could have:
"Don't They Know it;s the End of the World".
... and if you didn't mind including an English trad tune, you could have:
"One more Dance and Then...."
Buddy Holly saw it coming with 'I Guess it Isn't Matter Any More', and who was it sang 'When Two Worlds Collide'?- wasn't he/she a particle physicist?.
What worries me slightly, though, is one of the CERN guys saying cheerfully: "It's almost impossible that the black holes produced (at CERN) can devour ....the earth."
On Titanic (no doubting that the end was near there) the band played "Nearer My God to Thee" to comfort the courageous and religious folk of 1912.
We snide and clever standard-issue secularists of 2008 will want a jolly sing-along to feign some plucky certainty that death holds neither meaning nor an afterlife: "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" followed by "The Internationale."
Reverend- that's some exposé. I've watched the first half hour so far (maybe another hour to go?!)- and given the high-level subject, he makes it pretty accessible, and, dare I say it, reassuring. (Even CPT gets a mention in there!)
So, away ye strangelets, false vacua and magnetic monopoles. 'Banish Misfortune' could well be in order after all.
Haha, P-K
In Terry Pratchett's "Science of Discworld", the research wizards at Unseen University conduct an experiment to split the thaum (the fundamental particle of magic):
"'I somehow feel I need to ask, Mister Stibbons... what chance is there of this just blowin' up and destroyin' the entire university?'
Ponder's heart sank. He mentally scanned the sentence, and took refuge in truth. 'None, sir.'
'Now try honesty, Mister Stibbons.' And that was the problem with the Archchancellor. He mostly strode round the place shouting at people, but when he did bother to get all his brain cells lined up he could point them straight at the nearest weak spot.
'Well... in the unlikely event of it going seriously wrong, it... wouldn't *just* blow up the university, sir.'
'What would it blow up, pray?'
'Er... everything, sir.'
'Everything there is, you mean?'
'Within a radius of about fifty thousand miles into space, sir, yes. According to HEX it'd happen instantaneously. We wouldn't even know about it.'
'And the odds of this are... ?'
'About fifty to one, sir.'
The wizards relaxed.
'That's pretty safe. I wouldn't bet on a horse on those odds,' said the Senior Wrangler.
I can be as fatalistic as circumstance warrant ("confidence is what you feel before everything goes terribly awry"), but 39 seconds is a long time to wait for the giant sucking sound to stop....
John Ellis (the druid from CERN explaining why we need have no fear) looks like the guy leading one of our sessions- so far, so good- maybe he plays Irish music in his spare time-
However...I'm pretty sure the accelerator was (originally?) due to be switched on in November, *2007*...
With timing like that, I'm not sure the CERN Ceílí Band will be winning much in the foreseeable future...
Sorry, I'm hogging this- thanks for the links, guys- that rap version of events should be shown to every school kid- science made cool.
I agree with Will- the black hole slurping in the world is scary (and hilarious!). I've known people with eating habits like that.
What would St. Particle have thought of it all, I wonder? And Napolitano Bonaparticle? (thanks, Nicholas!)
It certainly looks like adding several new dimensions to the naming of tunes.
Set for It?
Set for It?
Following the recent heads-up from lazyhound about CERN, I have Wednesday pencilled in for the end of the world, and am putting together a medly of tunes suitable for kissing my atholl goodbye, should the need arise (The Bang-shee, The Hair Fell Off My Coconut, that kind of thing.)
Any plans?
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
The Light at the End of the Tunnel??
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by the wounded hussar
Re: Set for It?
The Blackberry Boson.
Or, if you prefer polkas, Quark Soup:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5472
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Ramiro
Re: Set for It?
The Funny Mistake
Love at the Endings
Return to Chernobyl
A Blast of WInd
Off She Goes!
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by RichardB
Re: Set for It?
LOL, Blackberry Boson!
I think "The Large Hadron Collider" would be a good tune name. A slip jig, I am thinking..
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Joe CSS
Re: Set for It?
Farewell to Erin?
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
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Wheels off the World!
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Bannerman
Re: Set for It?
Hussar, I looked but found no 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' (ha)...is it a horn-pipe?
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Sorry not a set - But dont play the Last Tune P-K lol...
jim,,,
The Templehouse
Punch in the Dark
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
A Ghost of His Former Self
Splendid Isolation
The Tempest
The Banshee's Wail over the Mangle Pit
The Kinnegad Slashers
Charley the prayermaster
The Sod of Turf
The Goats' Horns
The Humours of Passage
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: Set for It?
Planxty Higgs. That's for the party afterwards, which should be a memorable p***-up if the thing succeeds. And for that matter, if it doesn't - though the right tune then might be Planxty No-win.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
"Last Tune" is a great title, Jim, under the circumstances!
"Old 'Had' You Have Killed Me" maybe
(the Hadron, remember?)
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Round The House And Mind The Compressor.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
My Lovely Force.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
For those, like me, who haven't been paying attention for the last 20 years, there's plenty about Higgs Boson etc. on YouTube (appropriate, eh?)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
I'm rather convinced that the LHC will not spell the end for us (http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1120625/), but for those of you that are skeptical, you can watch the end coming live, so you might have a few seconds warning (http://webcast.cern.ch/)
So for me, "It's the End of the World as We Know it, and I Feel Fine"
But to play along anyway, my set would be
Ships are Sailing
Space Party
Happy Old Man
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Reverend
Re: Set for It?
.. if you didn't mind including a non-trad tune, you could have:
"Don't They Know it;s the End of the World".
... and if you didn't mind including an English trad tune, you could have:
"One more Dance and Then...."
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Set for It?
Buddy Holly saw it coming with 'I Guess it Isn't Matter Any More', and who was it sang 'When Two Worlds Collide'?- wasn't he/she a particle physicist?.
What worries me slightly, though, is one of the CERN guys saying cheerfully: "It's almost impossible that the black holes produced (at CERN) can devour ....the earth."
Whaddya mean 'ALMOST'...?
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
P-K, you should watch the video that I linked there... interesting stuff. He takes it past "almost"...
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Reverend
Re: Set for It?
I will, Reverend- thanks.
Looking at that accelerator, 'Never Was Piping So Long' comes to mind.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Yikes!
On Titanic (no doubting that the end was near there) the band played "Nearer My God to Thee" to comfort the courageous and religious folk of 1912.
We snide and clever standard-issue secularists of 2008 will want a jolly sing-along to feign some plucky certainty that death holds neither meaning nor an afterlife: "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" followed by "The Internationale."
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
Re: Set for It?
Kick the World Before Me: http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6436
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by Will CPT
Re: Set for It?
Reverend- that's some exposé. I've watched the first half hour so far (maybe another hour to go?!)- and given the high-level subject, he makes it pretty accessible, and, dare I say it, reassuring. (Even CPT gets a mention in there!)
So, away ye strangelets, false vacua and magnetic monopoles. 'Banish Misfortune' could well be in order after all.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Trunkles (English Morris tune).
It's just the sort of droll name they might give to the next particle to turn up.
(I don't know what a trunkle *is*, or ever was...)
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
The Random Higg.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
The Price Of My Higg...
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
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Bona Particle Smashing The Alps...
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
nicholas
You said=
(I don't know what a trunkle *is*, or ever was...)
WE WILL SOON FIND OUT -LOL..
jim,,
Irish slow air ='' THE VALLEY OF THE GHOSTS,,,,,,,,''
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by FIDDLE4
Re: Set for It?
I suppose we ought to be grateful that CERN is having the Big Switch-On on 9/10 instead of 9/11.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by lazyhound
Re: Set for It?
Tam Lin. Then we'll all be grateful that at least it's coming to an end. Permanently.
# Posted on September 8th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
Haha, P-K
In Terry Pratchett's "Science of Discworld", the research wizards at Unseen University conduct an experiment to split the thaum (the fundamental particle of magic):
"'I somehow feel I need to ask, Mister Stibbons... what chance is there of this just blowin' up and destroyin' the entire university?'
Ponder's heart sank. He mentally scanned the sentence, and took refuge in truth. 'None, sir.'
'Now try honesty, Mister Stibbons.' And that was the problem with the Archchancellor. He mostly strode round the place shouting at people, but when he did bother to get all his brain cells lined up he could point them straight at the nearest weak spot.
'Well... in the unlikely event of it going seriously wrong, it... wouldn't *just* blow up the university, sir.'
'What would it blow up, pray?'
'Er... everything, sir.'
'Everything there is, you mean?'
'Within a radius of about fifty thousand miles into space, sir, yes. According to HEX it'd happen instantaneously. We wouldn't even know about it.'
'And the odds of this are... ?'
'About fifty to one, sir.'
The wizards relaxed.
'That's pretty safe. I wouldn't bet on a horse on those odds,' said the Senior Wrangler.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by Joe CSS
Re: Set for It?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by Reverend
Re: Set for It?
This one's like a trailer for Terminator 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJFllPVIcpg&NR=1
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by Will CPT
Re: Set for It?
But this one worries me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM&feature=related
I can be as fatalistic as circumstance warrant ("confidence is what you feel before everything goes terribly awry"), but 39 seconds is a long time to wait for the giant sucking sound to stop....
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by Will CPT
Re: Set for It?
John Ellis (the druid from CERN explaining why we need have no fear) looks like the guy leading one of our sessions- so far, so good- maybe he plays Irish music in his spare time-
However...I'm pretty sure the accelerator was (originally?) due to be switched on in November, *2007*...
With timing like that, I'm not sure the CERN Ceílí Band will be winning much in the foreseeable future...
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Has anyone written a tune about this yet? - the clock is ticking....
("Oh, LHC, you can fall on me...?")
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
When two Protons collide around here, odds are one of them in not insured.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Sorry, I'm hogging this- thanks for the links, guys- that rap version of events should be shown to every school kid- science made cool.
I agree with Will- the black hole slurping in the world is scary (and hilarious!). I've known people with eating habits like that.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
This one's nice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsCPvYVCzGs&feature=related
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
That's a beautiful little film, Ben (I like the comment 'I never saw Venice...') and the elegiac music- what is that?
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Terry Pratchett was once a press officer for the nuclear power industry, so he knows a thing or two about that technology.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by lazyhound
Re: Set for It?
Like quotes from Shakespeare, you can find at least one Irish tune with a title apt for any conceivable occasion.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by lazyhound
Re: Set for It?
"The HAD at the CERN"?
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Tomorrow...
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
Yeah, it's a great film right enough. Nearly had me in tears. I, too, loved the music in it.
Ah well, we've still got a few hours to go ...
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
Rakish Particle.
# Posted on September 9th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
Today's the day.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
I'll be with you as soon as I get this coal scuttle off my head.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
October 21 is the day. That's when the first high energy collsions are planned to take place. So, we still have enough time for learning a few tunes.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Ramiro
Re: Set for It?
Fair enough. Now, what tunes do I need to take with me?
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
It's said that the protons will whizz round the tunnel (18 miles or so of it) at 11,000 laps per second when they really get going.
I can't get my head round that. I wonder if it's a typo...
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
They have to be captured first. And then electrocuted to make them run faster. Poor protons.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by benhall.1
Re: Set for It?
What would St. Particle have thought of it all, I wonder? And Napolitano Bonaparticle? (thanks, Nicholas!)
It certainly looks like adding several new dimensions to the naming of tunes.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by P-K
Re: Set for It?
It's not a typo, nicholas. Poor protons indeed. Speed kills.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Ramiro
Re: Set for It?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMJtkOaJW10
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Ramiro
Re: Set for It?
Actually, it sounds like central Athens in the rush hour.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Set for It?
I mean, protons rushing round at a few zillion miles per hour, not what was on ramiro's clip...
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by nicholas